by frog
I have to laugh out loud when i think that this is the sort of justice that both National and Labour (and others) voted for last year. Well, next week, unless the Nats eat crow as awkwardly as Labour tried to do today in the House, this humourous little video from MohawkMedia, a.k.a. the g33k show, will be more reflective of reality. More’s the pity.
Metiria gave Labour a serve here. Stephen Fry gives the law a serve here. Meanwhile, laugh at this while you can, and contact your MP about repealing all the repugnant clauses inserted into the Copyright Act last year, starting with section 92A.
Published in Justice & Democracy | Video by frog on Thu, February 19th, 2009
Tags: copyright, green, kangaroo court, new zealand, party, S92A, theg33kshow, Video
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
I have emailed various MP’s … and have signed this petition:
http://creativefreedom.org.nz/copywrong.html
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What makes you think anyone voted for this ’sort of justice’?
Have also signed the petition, but since it’s already been presented i’m not sure there’s much point in signing further?
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This is bizarro.
The ‘roo admits undertaking activities in violation of the law of the land. Its not like he’s saying “I’m innocent of all charges” and that he’s had to prove his innocence – he’s admitted his guilt!
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You beauty!
I do find myself wondering if the people who drafted the law were total F*ng luddites who don’t realise how far behind the ROTW we are here in NZ, so that internet downloads are the way most people keep up, especially if they work in a northern-hemisphere dominant creative industry. Oh, yeah, that would be most of our creatives!
duplicating but not spamming, in case other ppl didn’t see Meyt’s post:
http://tvnz.co.nz/politics-news/protesters-say-copyright-law-stripping -rights-2496050/video
James Murray at TV3 on the issues:
http://www.3news.co.nz/Default.aspx?TabId=1038
Scoop:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0902/S00338.htm
hmm, tvnz link hasn’t loaded properly – nice frog please fix?
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If the argument is that the principles of the copyright law are out of date and indeed in parts just wrong, I fully agree. If the arguement is that the music biz is using the copyright law to prevent themselves dissapearing off the face of the earth, exactly as the Luddites tried to stop progress by smashing up powered looms, then I’ve been preaching that line for years.
I could spend hours telling anyone who cares to listen about how wrong the way that the Copyright laws work in the context of music are wrong.
But this has only related to S92A in that they happen to be in the same act. S92 is nothing (positive or negative) about how wrong Copyright is, and if one was to be honest, the New Technologies ammendment bill, of which S92A is just one small part, actually did some good. You can now legally copy a CD (which you own) to your ipod, previously a crime, and even (shock horror) legally timeshift TV programs, also previously a crime.
Which is what makes that video a failed joke in the context of S92A opposition. If you want to take on the entirity of the concept of copyright then go for it. If you want to object to 92A, go for that. But dont get confused and use the arguments against one as an argument against the other, it just looks silly.
Oh, and I read James Murray’s blog issue, as you were kind enough to post the link. Starts badly; the second sentence is incorrect. Then it assumes that the TCF protocol will be used, or something like it. From the sentence “The copyright debate is wide-ranging and complex;” it gets good. But it still fails to understand the way in which music copyright is flawed: it just moves the chairs around a bit.
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